Recent content by Gixxer

I have brewed this several times, with variations anywhere from 1.100 to 1.080, and its great all the way around. I do prefer the double bastard though, so more often that not its been a higher OG.

I have a 5L beaker for the last step of a starter. if I need three steps, I give myself at least 7 days. If the yeast is old, it might take a solid day or more before they get to work on the first step. I have a bad habit of not giving enough time, and end up changing the brew day because of...

the Viking sneaky pete doesnt look too bad.

There are a few sneaky petes out there, up to $600 (what?).

I used to be a huge Meucci fanboy but I have heard the quality isnt there anymore. I always looked at it like get a base model cue without a bunch of inlays. All of those cues with a bunch of inlays started as a base cue, and 8 ebony points don't make the cue shoot better lol! I was looking...

I made a 4 gallon batch with 3 gallons of a 1.030 smash, and those three gallons went into the fermenter with a gallon of cranberry wine concentrate. my OG was 1.100. Fermented with EC1118. Finished at 1.020 which I wanted. It pretty much tastes like sparkling cranberry wine. However, if you...

Bottled and corked a cranberry Christmas ale. The rest were capped.

I played in the APA for a bar in Charleston SC back in 1997. Not much these days though. I do need to play more. My 97 Meucci is still straight after all these years in storage. Regardless of the subject, some forums are like elementary school recess. painful to navigate. you should see...

Yes. After I drain the tun and remove the grains, there is only residual liquid in the bottom.

I feel like 4 quarts is a lot of deadspace in a 10gl cooler. The FB does not quite rest on the bottom the way it should. The diameter of the FB is not quite small enough to get all the way down to rest on the legs. Need to grind down the diameter of the FB so I can lose some of that...

4 quarts

I vorlauf anywhere from a gallon to a gallon and a half till the pour is clear before lautering. Drain the tun, sprage water goes in, stir, then vorlauf the same amount before draining.

Gotcha. So then what is the point of putting a value in the tun dead space section in an equipment profile if it doesn't scale the grain bill? Just curious. But I do have a way ahead I believe

I also probably should build a test recipe and see if the grain bill amount changes when I select the equipment profile. It does make sense that possibly the volumes are correct for water, but the grain bill is not adjusting.

Truthfully I don't remember which one. I need to do some poking to see. I added the volume under the equipment profile on the right side of the popup that comes up when you edit an equipment profile.